Earlier this year, two campaigns variously made up of traditionalist sci-fi fans, neoreactionaries, Gamergaters and other flavors of angry white dude hijacked the nominations for one of sci-fi’s most prestigious awards, the Hugo. Now one of the biggest publishers in sci-fi and fantasy seems to have come out in support… »6/09/15 9:25pm 6/09/15 9:25pm

When a young mad scientist meets a witch in junior high school, they form an unusual bond — even though he's building a supercomputer and she's talking to animals. That's what happens in my novel All the Birds in the Sky, which Tor Books has just agreed to publish next year. I am way over the moon about this! »3/11/14 1:50pm 3/11/14 1:50pm

The second book in Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Chronicles, Words of Radiance, hits physical and virtual bookshelves today. So enjoy this conversation between the author and legendary publisher/ Tor Books founder Tom Doherty, about how to break into the biz, the future of Sanderson's fantasy worlds, and more! »3/06/14 5:30pm 3/06/14 5:30pm

Last night's episode of Person of Interest was holy crap amazing, bringing together three subplots in an extravaganza of crypto-libertarian homicidal corruption. Plus, Root and Shaw team up at last! »10/30/13 5:13pm 10/30/13 5:13pm

How often does an English-language science fiction novel sell 400,000 copies? That's how many copies Liu Cixin's Three Body Trilogy has sold in Chinese — and at last, this pioneering work of science fiction about a civilization that lives in a trinary star system is coming out in English translation, thanks to… »7/26/13 4:00pm 7/26/13 4:00pm

Happy birthday, Carl Sagan! The legendary astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and science educator would have been 78 today. To celebrate, we've rounded up a handful of our favorite Sagan posts and curated some stellar content from other websites that are honoring him today. Feel free to contribute in the comments! »11/09/12 2:14pm 11/09/12 2:14pm

Yesterday pioneering cartoonist Joe Kubert passed away at the age of 85. Kubert was famous for creating and defining such characters as the hard-as-nails Sergeant Rock, the supernatural crime-fighter Ragman, the DC Comics stalwart Hawkman, and the caveman Tor, whose prehistoric adventures were catalogued in Kubert's…»8/13/12 9:10am 8/13/12 9:10am

Anybody who loves serialized stories and episodic dramas will be excited to learn that Tor is experimenting with publishing the next John Scalzi book first in serialized form, as a set of e-books, and then later in collected print and e-book editions — similar to the way that comics come out in single issues and are… »7/07/12 3:30pm 7/07/12 3:30pm

If you're in New York tomorrow evening, you should stop by the Soho Gallery for the Digital Arts around 6:30, when Charlie Jane Anders will be reading from her novelette "Six Months, Three Days" with Lost Everything author Brian Francis Slattery. This is part of the long-running and illustrious New York Review of…»5/21/12 6:40am 5/21/12 6:40am

Starting in early July, the whole Tor/Forge e-book catalog will be free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) — which means you'll have an easier time copying them from one device to another. And it also means that Tor's books will be available from e-book retailers who only stock DRM-free books. »4/25/12 4:36pm 4/25/12 4:36pm

Good news! Walter Mosley, best known for his Easy Rawlins novels, will be publishing more science fiction next year — he has a series of SF novellas coming from Tor, whom he describes as "THE science fiction publisher." They'll be packaged as one or more flipbooks. »12/07/11 8:17am 12/07/11 8:17am

Scary figures from Russian folk tales cruising around in Soviet-era Russia, wreaking political and magical havoc? Only Catherynne M. Valente could write that story, and she has - in her new novel Deathless. Read an excerpt! »1/20/11 2:29pm 1/20/11 2:29pm